é — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
é is used for these senses in English:
- s Used to form regular plurals of nouns.
- e (rare, epicene, nonstandard) A gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to the singular they and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
- he (personal, sometimes, _, proscribed, see usage notes) They; he or she (a person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant).
- him With accusative effect or as a direct object. [from 12th c.]
- it The third-person singular neuter personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.
- it The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun (according to some definitions), anticipatory it or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject is commonly a to-infinitive, a gerund, or a noun clause introduced by a subordinating conjunction.